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GHSA-3QJ8-93XH-PWH2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-04-21 18:30 – Updated: 2024-10-28 15:22

Summary

Duplicate Advisory: Starlette allows an unauthenticated and remote attacker to specify any number of form fields or files

Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-74m5-2c7w-9w3x. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

There MultipartParser usage in Encode's Starlette python framework before versions 0.25.0 allows an unauthenticated and remote attacker to specify any number of form fields or files which can cause excessive memory usage resulting in denial of service of the HTTP service.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "published": "2023-04-21T18:30:24Z",
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CVE-2023-30798 (GCVE-0-2023-30798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-21 15:27 – Updated: 2025-11-21 16:11

Summary

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

VulnCheck

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/encode/starlette/security/advi…	vendor-advisory
	https://github.com/encode/starlette/commit/8c74c2…	patch
	https://vulncheck.com/advisories/starlette-multip…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Encode	Starlette	Affected: 0 , < 0.25.0 (python)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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